US-Wahl
[uːˈʔɛsˌvaːl]
The verdict
“US-Wahl” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika stattfindende Wahl
Corpus desk
Index DE-us-wahl · US-Wahl · German
US-Wahl · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | US-Wahl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uːˈʔɛsˌvaːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „US-Wahl“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
US-Wahl is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [uːˈʔɛsˌvaːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika stattfindende Wahl".
US-Wahl doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is US-Wahl, spelled U-S---W-A-H-L.
Definition
- 1eine in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika stattfindende Wahl
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how US-Wahl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der iranische Präsident geißelte die US-Wahlen als gewaltige Geldverschwendung.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.